Wendy Kirkland’s Market Watch October 30, 2025

S&P Blip Shows A Great Trade To Take

When I look for a great trade, one of the places I turn is to SPY, or the SPDR S&P 500 trust. This heavily traded exchange traded fund tracks the S&P 500 and often creates opportunities from broader market moves.

To zero in on a trade for this week, let’s look at what the S&P did Wednesday to get a sense of what it might do this week.

This chart image is courtesy of FINVIZ.com a free website and shows us how it moved on the most recent trading day.

Next, we want to see where the momentum is to get a sense of the direction it will head next. As we look at the chart of the SPY below, pay attention to the Percentage Price Oscillator or PPO at the bottom of the chart. When the lines in the PPO cross it is a telling signal, we can use to find a trade.

The PPO on this chart the black line is above the red indicating a BULLISH trend. The stock price in this example is $687.39. If price goes UP to $688 you could consider a CALL option.

We are always looking for ways to minimize risk and increase our potential profit when we trade. Options are a great way to do just that.

If you were trading options and selected the 697 CALL option strike, you would pay a premium of around $5.69 for the Nov 21st expiration, or $569 for the 100-share option contract.  If the stock price moves to 575 the premium is apt to go up about $3.00.  Your premium of $569 plus $300= $869. That is a profit of 53% over a short period of time.

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I wish you the very best,

Wendy